Title: Boom!
Author: Mark Haddon
Year: 2010
Genre: Adventure, Sci Fi
Age: 5th-8th grade
Summary: Jimbo and Charlie overhear their teachers speaking in a strange language and set out to investigate. They get in far too deep and Charlie is kidnapped (to another planet) and Jimbo must rescue him.
Review: Haddon is British and this book is VERY British. Words that Americans won’t understand unless they’ve watched quite a bit of BBC will throw off many readers. Even I, a complete Anglophile, had a lot of trouble figuring out what on Earth was happening at points. Other than the language barrier, this is a quick little read. I recommend it to those who love British culture and science fiction.
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